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	Diyarbakir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is the capital of Diyarbakir Province with 1.4 million inhabitants (2004 estimate).
		Diyarbakir is the commercial and manufacturing centre of a wide region.
		Diyarbakir is connected by road and railway with Elazig 200 km northwest and Malatya 400 km west, and by road alone with Mardin 100 km south and Van 300 km east.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/diyarbakir.htm (337 words)

	Diyarbakir, Turkey
		Diyarbakir, one of the most picturesque of all Turkish cities, with a high proportion of its inhabitants Kurds, stands on a pedestal of fl basalt on the west bank of the upper Tigris (Dicle Nehri), surrounded by fertile plots of cultivated land.
		Once a staging post on the ancient trade route from the Persian-Arabian Gulf to the Old Syrian Mediterranean ports and, via Byzantium, to the West, Diyarbakir, with its excellently preserved town wall and citadel, its host of lovely medreses and mosques and its winding alleyways is the epitome of an old Anatolian town.
		In the ninth century B.C. Diyarbakir was the chief settlement in the Bit Zamami region, intermittently dependent in subsequent centuries on the Assyrian Empire.
	www.planetware.com /turkey/diyarbakir-tr-di-di.htm (392 words)

	Diyarbakir - All About Turkey
		Diyarbakir is located on a transition zone connecting the mountainous northern areas and the plains of Mesopotamia.
		Diyarbakir is one of the provinces accorded priority in development.
		The bridge is near Silvan, a district of Diyarbakir, on Diyarbakir - Batman provincial border.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /diyarbakir.htm (1273 words)

	DIYARBAKIR
		The population of the province is 1,364,209 according to the Census of 2000.
		The peripheral districts of the province are Bismil, Cinar, Cermik, Cungus, Dicle, Egil, Ergani, Hani, Hazro, Kocakoy, Kulp, Lice and Silvan.
		Despite the dominance of agriculture and animal husbandry as main economic activities, the province has a large potential for industrial activities and it is, in fact, the second industrial center of the region after Gaziantep.
	www.gap.gov.tr /English/Ggbilgi/dbakir.html (1125 words)

	Kon-Kurd
		Diyarbakir province is the center of the Southeast Anatolia region in economic, political, cultural and geographical terms.
		Diyarbakir is one of the major cities affected deeply by the waves of displacement and violent conflict that continued until recently.
		Diyarbakir should be defined as a central city in the same way as 15 others metropolitan municipalities, and there should be room for effective participation of local governments and civil society actors in the management of the development agencies.
	www.kon-kurd.org /english/indexen.php?f=news&act=show&id=8 (7656 words)

	Diyarbakir (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Nicknamed "The Paris of the East", it is capital of the Diyarbakir Province.
		Diyarbakir boasts numerous medieval mosques and madrassahs, crowned by the 11th Century Ulu Cami (''tr.'' Great Mosque) constructed by alternating bands of fl basalt and limestone.
		Diyarbakir was also one of the areas where Turkish Hezbullah was most active in the early to mid 1990s, with this group often targeting PKK activists and the city's tiny Christian community of Armenians and Assyrians.
	diyarbakir.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (552 words)

	Clinico-epidemiologic study of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Diyarbakir Turkey
		In 2002 we studied the epidemiology of CL in Dedeköy and Durabeyli towns in Diyarbakir Province.
		Diyarbakir province is the southern province of Turkey with a population of approximately one million people.
		In the 1950s, CL was endemic in the southeastern region of Turkey in such areas as Diyarbakir, Sanliurfa, and Adana, and was characterized by anthroponotic epidemics [1].
	dermatology.cdlib.org /123/case_reports/leishmaniasis2/aytekin.html (2002 words)

	Report of the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Nigel S. Rodley, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution ...
		Kadir Kurt was arrested on 19 April 1992 in Birik village, district of Bismil near Diyarbakir, and taken for interrogation to the gendarmerie battalion headquarters where he died the same night due to internal bleeding caused by pressure on the lungs from a broken sternum.
		Mehmet Kiran was arrested on 17 June 1993 by soldiers in the village of Atala, near Mazidagi, in the province of Mardin, and taken to the gendarmerie station in Derik for interrogation.
		Following the autopsy made at Diyarbakir state hospital, it was identified that he died because of the trauma to his head due to the knock on the concrete surface.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cat/Rapporteur/cat-turkey.htm (6236 words)

	EUR 44/085/2001 TURKEY Further information on UA 280/01 (EUR 44/079/2001, 5 November 2001) - Risk of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Remziye Dag was apparently detained at a check-point in Ergani, Diyarbakir province, on 11 November.
		She was allegedly taken to her house at 9.00 pm on 14 November by security officials so that she could change her clothes, which were said to be in tatters and stained with blood.
		Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey is currently under a State of Emergency.
	www2.amnesty.se /uaonnet.nsf/d1c4215f6be10b45c1256672003dd2be/78c7d3005ee5a64ec1256b0a00586a52?OpenDocument (834 words)

	Southeast Anatolia Turkey
		Gaziantep Province, founded on rather fertile lands with a moderate climate, is the most important industrial and cultural center of the GAP region, besides its agricultural wealth.
		Diyarbakir, which was founded near the shores of the Tigris River on a basalt high plateau, which descends with sharp slopes to the shores of this river, at an elevation of 650 meters above sea level, has two sections, the old city and the new city.
		The Goat Tower, to the east of the Mardin Gate, is the largest and the oldest tower of the Diyarbakir city walls.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/sights/southeast.htm (1701 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Diyarbakir, city of culture and history
		Diyarbakir, the city of culture and history known as the cradle of civilization, seems to have lost its past splendor.
		Diyarbakir, the cultural and economic center of southeastern Anatolia, suffered the most from this trend and its resulting population increase destroyed many things that had made the city special.
		The walls have a total of 82 towers, the most important of which are the Seven Brothers and Evli Beden, built by the architect Yahya, son of Ibrahim, in 1208 and sponsored by Artuk chief Melik Salih in honor of his father.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20040218080223680 (1055 words)

	Bomb kills 7 in southeastern Turkey - Boston.com
		Authorities said the bomb in the city of Diyarbakir was made from powerful explosives and was set off by a cell phone timer.
		The deputy governor of the surrounding Diyarbakir province, Ahmet Aydin, said children were among those killed and two of the injured were in serious condition at a local hospital.
		Diyarbakir is Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, and the blast came as Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in the region have stepped up their attacks.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/09/12/explosion_in_turkey_kills_7_wounds_14 (510 words)

	Turkey
		At the beginning of the year, four provinces remained under a state of emergency; but the Government completed the phased lifting of the regime on November 30 and closed the State of Emergency Regional Governor's Office, which exercised authority over the governors of the emergency provinces, as well as the adjacent provinces.
		Some of the factors affecting the lower rate of torture were reductions in the periods of incommunicado detention; the near-absence of PKK violence; the phased lifting of the state of emergency in the southeast; and the increased scrutiny of the country due to its EU candidacy.
		The Diyarbakir HRA office also reported one case in which the Jandarma told the residents of a village that they should show their support for DEHAP by having the village sheikh vote symbolically on behalf of the whole village.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18396.htm (18106 words)

	Kurdish Human Rights Project
		June 1993 - village raid, Pecar, Diyarbakir Province - 500-600 soldiers -200 household village - indiscriminate firing - burning of houses - slaughter of livestock.
		June 1993 - village raid, Islam, Diyarbakir Province - 400 soldiers - 100 household village - house and possessions of applicant set on fire - later returned and burned the village mill.
		June 1993 - Diyarbakir - freedom of expression - kiosk selling papers including Ozgur Gundem and Halk - threat to applicant - kiosk was burned - uncle of applicant manning the kiosk - shot by unknown assailants - applicant arrested and threatened the same day - allegation that he was the intended target.
	www.khrp.org /news/pr1995/may04-95.htm (456 words)

	Diyarbakır Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The province covers an area of 15,162 km² and as of the 2000 census it had a population of 1,362,708.
		Its adjacent provinces are Elazığ to the northwest, Malatya and Adıyaman to the west, Şanlıurfa to the southwest, Mardin to the south, Batman to the east, Muş to the east, and Bingöl to the northeast.
		Diyarbakir province is divided into 14 districts (capital district in bold):
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diyarbakir_Province (148 words)

	Anadolu Agency: News in English, 03-01-09
		DIYARBAKIR - Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said on Thursday that what was clear was that the plane en route from Istanbul to southeastern Diyarbakir province crashed during landing at Diyarbakir airport due to fog.
		DIYARBAKIR - A total of 32 dead bodies of people who died in plane crash in Diyarbakir province were identified on Thursday.
		DIYARBAKIR - Helin Kiran, the baby who was injured in the plane crash in southeastern Diyarbakir province, died in Dicle University Faculty of Medicine Hospital where she was taken under medical treatment early on Thursday.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/anadolu/2003/03-01-09.anadolu.html (1204 words)

	UK observer mission on Turkish elections (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The largest of these took place in Diyarbakir, the principal city of the Kurdish area, which was attended by an estimated one million people.
		The British delegates operated in three groups which visited polling stations in Diyarbakir city, three towns and seven villages in Diyarbakir province to observe voting procedures and the ambience of the polling stations in local school premises.
		The two groups of delegates visiting towns and villages in the northern part of Diyarbakir province encountered a total of seven police checkpoints, in one case involving a delay of 45 minutes and an appeal to the Governer¹s office before the group was allowed to proceed..
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=4825 (605 words)

	Analay: "Overhaul Needed In Child Protection" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Diyarbakir Bar Association Children's Rights Center lawyer Cengiz Analay has appealed for children's homes to be opened for civilian inspection with an overhaul of the legislation protecting children in wake of confirmation that at least 34 minors had gone missing from such homes over the past 3 years in Diyarbakir province alone.
		The investigation was launched after independent allegations of disappearances were made from social services operated children's homes and showed that 34 minors, including 18 girls, were missing from homes for 0-12 and 13-18 age group children.
		Diyarbaki'r deputy governor Hidir Kahveci confirmed there were missing children in the province and said:
	www.bianet.org /2006/06/01_eng/news80429.htm (761 words)

	Diyarbakır - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 189 BCE to 384 CE, the area to the east and south of present-day Diyarbakır, was ruled by a Kurdish kingdom
		It later became a province of the Roman Empire in 66 BCE.
		The Ottoman eyalet of Diyarbekir covered the geography corresponding to Turkey's southeastern provinces today, a rectangular area between the Lake Urmia to Palu and from the southern shores of Lake Van to Cizre and the beginnings of the Syrian desert, although its borders saw some changes over time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diyarbakir (1064 words)

	Turkey
		The trial of 25 Diyarbakir lawyers charged in 1993 and 1994 for aiding and abetting the PKK, and in a few cases with membership in a terrorist organization, continued at the Diyarbakir SSC.
		Six provinces remain under "adjacent province" status, which authorizes the Jandarma to retain security responsibility for municipalities as well as rural areas and grants the provincial governor several extraordinary powers.
		In February in Diyarbakir eight motorcycle police officers beat a cameraman for the mainstream NTV television station until he was unconscious.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/365.htm (19329 words)

	AP Wire \| 11/01/2006 \| At least 22 dead in flooding in Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The minibus was caught by the floodwaters near the town of Cinar in Diyarbakir province on Tuesday, said Gov. Efkan Ala of Diyarbakir.
		It was heading to a wedding in the town of Savur, in nearby Mardin province, when it got stuck in the mud, and the driver and three passengers left to seek help, the Dogan news agency said.
		Eight other people were killed in Diyarbakir, Sirnak and Hakkari provinces, authorities said.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/15902189.htm (290 words)

	Districts of Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The provinces of Turkey are divided into 923 districts (ilçeler; sing.
		Each municipality (belediye) in its urban zone (belde) is an administrative division subject to elections depending on the province.
		One final note is the büyükşehir belediyesi (or larger municipalities) for megalopoles like İstanbul or İzmir, which have at their top an elected head mayor who oversee a number of municipalities and mayors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Districts_of_Turkey (385 words)

	NETWORK OF CONCERNED HISTORIANS (NCH) #21 iii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		On 27 March 2001, plainclothes police officers arrested archaeology student Emrullah Karagoz (?1978-) and held him at the Diyarbakir Police Headquarters, where he was at risk of torture.
		On 1 November he was brought before a judge and remanded to Diyarbakir prison on 1 November, but his whereabouts were unclear.
		Fehmi Ak was reportedly detained by plain-clothes security officers in the course of a raid on his house in Bingol province on 13 November.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~nch/action21iii.htm (1108 words)

	Online NewsHour: Reluctant Ally-- October 22, 2002
		Diyarbakir is an ancient place on the banks of the Tigris River, surrounded by a wall that goes back to Roman times.
		Cemil Serhadli is the appointed governor of Diyarbakir Province.
		FEREDUN CELIK, Mayor, Diyarbakir (Translated): These new laws that have been passed by parliament to make Turkey's integration into the EU easier are supposed to permit TV broadcasting in Kurdish and thing of that nature, but there are many restrictions and limits governing these laws.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/july-dec02/turkey_10-22.html (2111 words)

	2003 Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo ...
		Medeni Kavak was reportedly detained in Diyarbakir on 10 December 2001.
		Engin Duruk, a 17-year old school student in Diyarbakir, reportedly filed a formal complaint against his assistant school director for repeated beatings and insults and was called to a meeting at the director’s office on 17 January 2001, where he was threatened by the assistant director and three police officers.
		He was sent to the Diyarbakir E-type Prison and then taken to the Diyarbakir Directorate of Security upon the decision of the relevant court under Decree n° 430.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/torture/vanboven03/tur.html (8032 words)

	Kurdish guerrillas kill 7 Turkish soldiers, wound 2 in attacks - Europe - International Herald Tribune
		The guerrillas detonated a remote controlled bomb planted near an outpost in the town of Guclukonak, Sirnak province, killing a lieutenant, a reserve officer and a private on Friday.
		On Saturday, a Turkish soldier was killed when his unit, on patrol along the Iranian border in eastern Van province, came under fire from suspected Kurdish guerrillas who opened fire from the Iranian side, authorities said.
		Later in the day, the guerrillas detonated a remoted controlled bomb killing a sergeant on patrol near the town of Dicle in Diyarbakir province, increasing the death toll to seven, authorities said.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/09/02/europe/EU_GEN_Turkey_Kurds.php (416 words)

	Diyarbakir Provinces Turkey Middle East Regional
		which swept Turkey, from Istanbul province in the west to Diyarbakir in the...
		The worst affected areas have been the south-eastern provinces of ?anliurfa, Diyarbakir, Sirnak and Batman; however parts of Istanbul and Mersin provinces...
		In the report, it describes the provinces as the most underdeveloped in...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Diyarbakir (123 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Kurds in Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A series of demonstrations took place in the city of Diyarbakir beginning with a protest of the arrests of mourners on the way to the funerals of separatist guerrillas.
		The Kurdish mayor of Diyarbakir on Tuesday told a state security court that he was beaten by police and forced to sign a confession while being held in custody for four days last February.
		The anti-terrorism department in south-eastern Diyarbakir said that the 26 were arrested at a meeting that was aimed at establishing a separatist group to be known as the Kurdish Revolutionary Party (KSP).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=64005 (12604 words)

	HRW - Letter to Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema (November 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		October 11, 1992: In the Uludere district of Sirnak province, PKK forces killed eleven individuals in a rocket attack against the homes of village guards.
		January 1, 1995: In a raid against the Hamzali village of Diyarbakir province, PKK forces killed nineteen individuals, including seven children and eight women.
		January 12, 1995: In a raid against the Narlica village of Diyarbakir province, PKK forces killed eight individuals, including two childern and one woman.
	www.hrw.org /press98/nov/italy-apendix.htm (641 words)

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